Watamote Blog Posts

I remember years ago when a certain manga about a girl with crippling social anxiety made headlines on 4chan, I decided to see for myself what it was all about. Boy, was I laughing and crying at [...]
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OreGairu is an anime released way back in 2013, and was infamous with it’s cynical deconstruction of the roncom genre. Because it’s second season was announced (April 2015, I think), I figured it was [...]
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Watamote – Episode 3 This is a series that makes me regret setting up this blog in a tournament format, because Watamote aims for a different reaction than most of the other shows it’s competing with. [...]
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Watamote – Episode 2 Faced with the task of following its brilliant premiere, this episode of Watamote fell a bit short in my estimation, at least given the show’s status as the tournament’s #2 seed. [...]
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Highschool was probably a terrible time for everyone that ever had to go to it. For Tomoko, a reclusive shut-in that prefers the world of otome dating simulators to reality, this is especially true. [...]
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Available from Amazon (DVD) Available from Amazon (Blu-ray) Available from Right Stuf (DVD) Available from Right Stuf (Blu-ray) Watamote Released By: Sentai Filmworks Released: 8/26/14 Reviewed: [...]
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I don’t want to announce a turnaround, since there were such false flashes before, but Watamote manga suddently took a turn to good in ch.58. It didn’t follow up in ch.59, but there’s a hope. It [...]
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Volume 4 of the anime series, titled Watashi ga Motenai no wa Dou Kangaete mo Omaera ga Warui! (Watamote) will be out on 8 January 2014. Contains Episodes 7-8. Two editions available for preorder: [...]
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I turn thirty this month. According to Daryl Surat, otaku reach their expiration date around about this time and I am supposed to scale back, if not outright cease, my love for anime or risk my DNA [...]
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Volume 3 of the anime series, titled Watashi ga Motenai no wa Dou Kangaete mo Omaera ga Warui! (Watamote) will be out on 4 December 2013. Contains Episodes 5-6. Two editions available for preorder: Blu-ray and DVD edition. Plot Summary Tomoko Kuroki is about as socially dysfunctional as it is possible for a first year [...]
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Volume 2 of the anime series, titled Watashi ga Motenai no wa Dou Kangaete mo Omaera ga Warui! (Watamote) will be out on 6 November 2013. Contains Episodes 3-4. Two editions available for preorder: Blu-ray and DVD edition. Plot Summary Tomoko Kuroki is about as socially dysfunctional as it is possible for a first year [...]
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While I was enthusiastic about Watamote at first, I realized that it didn’t really fulfilled the expectations I set for it. While it is unique it is own way, it doesn’t really made me feel good about it. Yes, it is somewhat funny but deep inside me, I felt pity ...
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We’ve all gone through a certain point in our lives where we just want to feel less lonely even though our abilities for social interactions are limited for some inexplicable reason. Shows that remind us of those dark times can be polarizing for the majority to comprehend and because of this we don’t see many […]
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We’ve all gone through a certain point in our lives where we just want to feel less lonely even though our abilities for social interactions are limited for some inexplicable reason. Shows that remind us of those dark times can be polarizing for the majority to comprehend and because of this we don’t see many […]
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This series had the funniest opening ever Japan has made it extremely clear to us that the most important phase of any human being, robot, alien, dimensional trespasser, Espers, gangsters, and basically any living being is the process of a 3-4 year institution known as highschool. Apparently in Japanese highschools you can either have the […]
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Watashi ga Motenai no wa Dou Kangaetemo Omaera ga Warui!” or Watamote for short is an anime that came out of nowhere to take the anime community by storm, the hardcore community anyway. The title roughly translates to “No Matter How I Look at It, It’s You Guys Fault I’m Not Popular,” and that is […]
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Good Smile Company is going to release the Nendoroid No.372 Kuroki Tomoko ( 黒木智子 ) action figure from the manga/anime “Watamote” ( 私がモテないのはどう考えてもおまえらが悪い ). Will released in February 2014. Around 100mm tall, 3,619 yen. LOL, I know a lot of people are going to get this Nendoroid Kuroki Tomoko just for her faces. XD ——Description [...]
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